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Falk, Benjamin J., 1853-1925 Photo of William T. Sherman, inscribed to Mr and Mrs Hopkins

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00735 Author/Creator: Falk, Benjamin J., 1853-1925 Place Written: New York Type: Photograph signed Date: 12 February 1888 Pagination: 1 cabinet card ; 17 x 11 cm. Order a Copy

Signed on front mount and inscribed on mount verso. Mrs. Hopkins' father, Henry Augustus Wise met Sherman in California in 1847. See WTS's Memoirs I:18, 24.

Falk, Benjamin J., 1853-1925

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